Fasting and Prayer

I'm not good at these two things. I recognize their value. I try to do them but in the end I fail to fast and pray on a regular basis. I will get the prayer thing down and then fall off the wagon. We have prayer as a family but my personal prayer lacks some muster. And then there's the fasting. I dread it. I tend to get extremely bad headaches and feel weak when I fast. I rarely make it the entire day. However, I knew it needed to be done. I knew I needed to fast for this:

A new house. A big beautiful new house. I have felt impressed for six months that we needed to move. I knew it was time to make a change and move into our "teenager" house. This house has been my favorite since it came on the market two months ago. It is in the perfect location. It has the perfect floor plan and I love it. We knew we might have some obstacles to overcome, like selling our current house, like paying a bigger mortgage, like getting a good offer before someone else beat us to it. I have been anxious about all of these things this last week. Worried about how it would all work out.

Enter the fasting.

I asked Jared to fast with me and we decided Sunday was a good day. Even though it was Easter and he wanted to eat his candy he made the sacrifice. We had a beautiful Easter program and I felt so blessed to be in such a good ward. We had a lovely dinner and we had our dear friends over. It was a great day and despite the very bad headache I had in the afternoon I felt so close to the Spirit and my family that it was fine. I felt so happy and good about everything.

We had planned to make an offer on this house last night. We knew they might not accept it with the contingency that our house had to sell but we wanted to let them know how interested we were. When we arrived at the realtor's office, she nearly burst out the door. We had an offer on our house too! It is a great offer, one Dave and I both feel good about.

I am so moved by the power of fasting. The way it increases faith. The way it blesses us so immensely. I have seen it work other times but this time I have really seen the hand of the Lord in immediately blessing us. I am committing to fasting regularly and hope to become better at obeying this wonderful commandment--in my new house.